A research for detecting the relationship between the participation of public employees in recreational activities, leisure time satiety and perceived stress

In this study, it is aimed to determine the relationship between the participation of public employees in recreational activities, leisure time satiety anda perceived stress. In the collection of research data, the Recreation Activities Participation Frequency form, which was created by using the 'Alberta Recreation Survey' study, the leisure satiety scale developed to measure the satiety obtained from leisure time and the percevied stress scale to measure the perceived stress level of public employees are used. The research population is consisted of 18,133 public personnel working in Ankara. The number of samples calculated over the number of universes is 376. 400 questionnaires are conducted with public personnel and 380 questionnaires are evaluated. As a result of the research, it's been detected that public personnel prefer to participate more in activities such as playing video games, spending time on the internet, watching television, playing board games, card games, participating in sports activities as spectators, while they prefer group activities less. When the relationship between the frequency of participation in recreational activities and leisure time satisfaction is examined, it has been determined that there is a positive relationship between participation in physical activities, participation in cultural activities and participation in hobbies. The relationship between participation in recreational activities and perceived stress has a positive and significant effect of cultural activities on stress; hobbies has a positive and significant effect and other activities has a negative and significant effect.